Ethnicity’s romantic appeal wanes when groups multiply and reveal their media construction.

Evidence

Nonetheless this particular appeal of ethnicity seems on the wane today, perhaps because there are now too many groups, and because their affiliation to representation (most often of a media type) is clearer and undermines the ontological satisfactions of the fiction in question. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 738

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is a testable periodization claim about the 1980s-90s — has the ‘too many groups, media clarity’ condition only intensified since? Worth checking against current identity politics as a falsifiability probe of the cultural-dominant thesis.
• XREF: connects to: Everyday multiethnic contact complicates, yet coexists with, media-amplified racial prejudices. — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture: A…, 73; Oppositional subcultures get absorbed into a weak sense of plural others. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1904; Stereotypes are cultural products rather than products of personal intergroup contact. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 177 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Everyday multiethnic contact complicates, yet coexists with, media-amplified racial prejudices. — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture: A…, 73; Oppositional subcultures get absorbed into a weak sense of plural others. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1904; Stereotypes are cultural products rather than products of personal intergroup contact. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 177 (+3 more)